Club 30's 'Kill the Boredom Demon' Jive Pad II
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Is elin here? I think I saw her nick @ the status box...
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opening up the day thread
tired.. waiting for hair to dry before i go sleep
hope everyone has a great day ahead -
Sleep lying face down, then your freshly shampooed hair can still dry mah.
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But of course! Guess why there's a need to enroll hundreds of new students into nursing every year?Originally posted by choco B:Not sure about the technicalities re: sponsorship, but she got admitted into the course pretty easily. -
Cutie bb
Getting 2 niece/ newphew 5 mths later
Wonder b or g? -
Rhonda, I read your reply to MG re nurses' pay and benefits. Would be it better with a degree qualification? How does degree improve pay and career prospects leh? Thanks in advance.Originally posted by Rhonda:But of course! Guess why there's a need to enroll hundreds of new students into nursing every year? -
That Arts Ctrl show on that baby, pains my heart..
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I've got colleagues who've completed their nursing degree - you just get $100 more a month.Originally posted by Wanda:Rhonda, I read your reply to MG re nurses' pay and benefits. Would be it better with a degree qualification? How does degree improve pay and career prospects leh? Thanks in advance.
Career prospects? You have to make sure the existing ward sisters and Snr Nurse Manager like you. -
Just $100 extra then a dip? AiyoOriginally posted by Rhonda:I've got colleagues who've completed their nursing degree - you just get $100 more a month.
Career prospects? You have to make sure the existing ward sisters and Snr Nurse Manager likes you.
Have to get into good books... Haiz.. -
$100 is not much more. And must pai ma pi is it?Originally posted by Rhonda:I've got colleagues who've completed their nursing degree - you just get $100 more a month.
Career prospects? You have to make sure the existing ward sisters and Snr Nurse Manager likes you.
I was given the impression that pte hospitals pay better. What do you think? I must meet you and have a chat one day, and of course, buy you that coffee that I owe you.
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Rhon, is the nurse training as like in that weekend Ch 8 drama?
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I think she hardly has time to catch that show...have to work on weekends leh.Originally posted by sbst275:Rhon, is the nurse training as like in that weekend Ch 8 drama? -
I hardly watch Ch 8, sorry!Originally posted by sbst275:Rhon, is the nurse training as like in that weekend Ch 8 drama? I'm a Ch 5 and AXN and Discovery Travel & Food and Animal Planet and Arts Central kinda person! -
I seeOriginally posted by Rhonda:I hardly watch Ch 8, sorry! I'm a Ch 5 and AXN and Discovery Travel & Food and Animal Planet and Arts Central kinda person!
Tonight that Arts Ctrl that baby show, see the trailer heart pain pain.. Poor bb -
Actually, in Nursing here, the degree is less important compared to the Advanced Diploma where you specialise in a clinical specialty. eg. Medical-Surgical Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Oncological Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Renal Nursing, etc.Originally posted by sbst275:Just $100 extra then a dip? Aiyo
Have to get into good books... Haiz..
An Advanced Dip with about 5 years' experience would get you promoted to a Snr Staff Nurse II.
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I seeOriginally posted by Rhonda:Actually, in Nursing here, the degree is less important compared to the Advanced Diploma where you specialise in a clinical specialty. eg. Medical-Surgical Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Oncological Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Renal Nursing, etc.
An Advanced Dip with about 5 years' experience would get you promoted to a Snr Staff Nurse II.
That is, provided you please the higher-up's.
higher up again... Poor thing... -
choco, I hope your friend knows what she's getting in for?
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I see. So, after dip, work as reg. nurse. After completing bond, can go for Advanced Dip (either sponsored or self-sponsored, I suppose?), after total of 5 yrs experence + be on good terms with higher ups, then got chance to be be promoted to Sr Staff Nurse II - and the salary range would be...?Originally posted by Rhonda:Actually, in Nursing here, the degree is less important compared to the Advanced Diploma where you specialise in a clinical specialty. eg. Medical-Surgical Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Oncological Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Renal Nursing, etc.
An Advanced Dip with about 5 years' experience would get you promoted to a Snr Staff Nurse II.
That is, provided you please the higher-up's. -
ZaoBao forum page got ppl say ICU a germ/ virus spreading area..
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Actually, if you've never worked for Ang Moh firms and have never had a taste of Empowerment and treating employees with respect, you might assimilate much better into the culture.
For instance, there's this guy in another ward I used to work in who has a first degree in Com. Sc. and then switched to the 2-year nursing dip programme, and he used to work for the Air Force where you know how the culture's like.
He seems to have fit into the culture pretty well.
He had better watch out though... I've heard comments from the Seniors about him and I think if he doesn't play his cards right, he'll be the next target for our 'vultures'. -
Everywhere in hospitals or even out of hospitals, can be breeding grounds and spreading grounds for viruses and bacteria and what-not.Originally posted by sbst275:ZaoBao forum page got ppl say ICU a germ/ virus spreading area..
How true is this?
In the ICU, a lot of patients are on ventilators, they are weakened and in an immuno-compromised state because of their serious illnesses, which put them there in the first place. Being on the ventilator puts one at risk for Ventilator-Acquired Pneumonia because there are many points of possible infection for the patients.
All said, there are germs and superbugs that originate from hospitals but do not go out into the community because the very ill are more susceptible.
And THAT is why we prohibit children from under 12 to enter the wards and visit the patients!
And yet, when I walk up to parents and try to explain that the hospital is not a good and safe area to bring their babies and toddlers in, they complain to my ward sister that I was 'rude', that I 'tried to prevent them from visiting the sick relatives', etc etc etc. And mind you, I have colleagues as witnesses to attest that I was NOT rude when I approached them!
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You know, we should come up with a new rule, "If you do not heed the warnings and advice given to you when visiting the patients / the infected patients, there shall be NO medical subsidy whatsoever should actual cross-infection occur to you!"
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There are just such ppl aroundOriginally posted by Rhonda:Everywhere in hospitals or even out of hospitals, can be breeding grounds and spreading grounds for viruses and bacteria and what-not.
In the ICU, a lot of patients are on ventilators, they are weakened and in an immuno-compromised state because of their serious illnesses, which put them there in the first place. Being on the ventilator puts one at risk for Ventilator-Acquired Pneumonia because there are many points of possible infection for the patients.
All said, there are germs and superbugs that originate from hospitals but do not go out into the community because the very ill are more susceptible.
And THAT is why we prohibit children from under 12 to enter the wards and visit the patients!
And yet, when I walk up to parents and try to explain that the hospital is not a good and safe area to bring their babies and toddlers in, they complain to my ward sister that I was 'rude', that I 'tried to prevent them from visiting the sick relatives', etc etc etc. And mind you, I have colleagues as witnesses to attest that I was NOT rude when I approached them! -
There are also *ahem... 'a certain group of locals' around who would bring their straw mats and lay them out in the patients' Day Room and have a grand-poobah noisy picnic and kampong fiesta time on weekends when they so-call come to visit the patients.Originally posted by sbst275:There are just such ppl around
And they can get mighty aggressive if you tell them to tone it down or tell them that the Day Room is meant for patients who want to watch TV or read the mags. -
Typical SingaporeansOriginally posted by Rhonda:There are also *ahem... 'a certain group of locals' around who would bring their straw mats and lay them out in the patients' Day Room and have a grand-poobah noisy picnic and kampong fiesta time on weekends when they so-call come to visit the patients.
And they can get mighty aggressive if you tell them to tone it down or tell them that the Day Room is meant for patients who want to watch TV or read the mags.